Now with fresh-baked Add On.
As per usual, the Nikkster allows no grass to grow 'neath her feet:
... [V]ery early numbers show "[Rio] is holding like a rock," a studio exec just emailed me. ... It's also a good day for Universal's holdover Hop from Illumination Entertainment which will pop on Saturday and Sunday ...
1. Rio 3D (Blue Sky Studio/Fox) Week 2 [3,842 Theaters] Friday $11M ...
4. Hop (Illumination Entertainment/Universal) Week 4 [3,616 Theaters] Friday $5.5M ...
The animation, she seems to be maintaining herself pretty good, eh?
Add On: The Hollywood trade paper gives us updates:
... Rio has become the top grossing 2011 release, ending Easter weekend with a new worldwide cume of $286 million. That easily bests Paramount’s Rango, which has earned just under $240 million globally.
Placing No. 4 was Universal’s Easter bunny hit Hop. The CGI/live-action pic jumped the $100 million mark at the domestic box office, grossing an estimated $12.5 million for a new cume of $100.5 million. ...
Add On Too: The L.A. Times tells us that animation has propelled U.S. box office back to health:
If there's been one hopeful Hollywood story at the box office this year, it's that of the animated family film.
Three movies about cartoon animals — "Rango," "Hop" and "Rio" — have been some of the only releases to draw moviegoers into theaters in large numbers. Domestically, "Rango" is the highest-grossing film of 2011. "Hop" passed $100 million this weekend. And "Rio," which centers on a bunch of birds on a journey to Brazil, just topped the box office for the second consecutive weekend with $26.8 million ...
Animation, the savior of Hollywood.
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How's "Winnie the Pooh" doing overseas? Do we have any numbers?
You're free to check the same websites Steve does. Box Office Mojo is good with foreign numbers, though they come in later than the domestic numbers. The trade papers also write articles on the overseas box office.
I will probably have foreign b.o. up on Sunday.
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